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Two killed in head-on collision in South Nashville; driver faces vehicular homicide charge

A head-on car collision killed two people on Nolensville Pike Saturday morning.

Howard McLemore faces two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault for killing his passenger and the other driver in the two-car wreck, according to Metro Nashville Police.

McLemore, 52, of Madison, was driving a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro the wrong way on Nolensville Pike when he collided with a 2009 Honda Civic at Paragon Mills Road, police said.

The impact killed the driver of the Civic, 25-year-old Joaquin Bastidas of Nashville, and injured his passenger, Ibrahim Viera, 18, of Arizona.

McLemore’s passenger, Sandy Burns, 49, of Nashville, was also killed.

McLemore was admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. An officer who saw him there noted that he appeared to be impaired, according to police.

A blood sample from McLemore will be analyzed for alcohol and drug content by the Metro police crime laboratory. He will be booked on the arrest warrants when he is discharged from the hospital, according to police.